“I was wearing safety glasses and I just took them off for a moment when …” Ophthalmologist Amy Weber says that is the moment when traumatic eye injury resulting in vision impairment or total and permanent vision loss too frequently occurs. In an eye practice where the staple is treating maladies of the elderly such as cataracts, glaucoma, macular degeneration and diabetes, Weber expresses sadness that so many preventable injuries in the younger are not prevented. She commonly treats, and may operate on, the homeowner who had just taken off safety goggles to inspect a stuck weed whacker, the plumber who, wanting a better look at a pipe overhead, takes off goggles while still using a power saw and the parent who took a moment to wipe some sweat away while observing their kid’s paintball game.
“I was wearing safety glasses and I just took them off for a moment when …” Ophthalmologist Amy Weber says that is the moment when traumatic eye injury resulting in vision impairment or total and permanent vision loss too frequently occurs. In an eye practice where the staple is treating maladies of the elderly such as cataracts, glaucoma, macular degeneration and diabetes, Weber expresses sadness that so many preventable injuries in the younger are not prevented. She commonly treats, and may operate on, the homeowner who had just taken off safety goggles to inspect a stuck weed whacker, the plumber who, wanting a better look at a pipe overhead, takes off goggles while still using a power saw and the parent who took a moment to wipe some sweat away while observing their kid’s paintball game.
